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KNIVES OUT (2019)

November 29, 2019

Knives Out! is what it would look like if The Royal Tenenbaums were invited to dinner in Murder by Death. 

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Win VERA on DVD

November 27, 2019

It’s Thanksgiving weekend! Does the mere thought of traveling through terrible weather and traffic just make you want to commit MURDER? Instead of engaging in a terrible crime, make a pot of hot tea and curl up with the DVD set of Vera.

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Happy birthday, Johnny Mercer

November 18, 2019

Mercer wrote more than 1,500 songs. He won four Oscars (and was nominated for 14 more), founded Capitol Records (and gave Nat “King” Cole his first contract) and founded the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame.

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GIVEAWAY: Criterion Blu-Ray of Hitchcock’s Notorious (1946)

October 8, 2019

In celebration of Spooktober, I’m giving away one copy of the Criterion Blu-ray of Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious (1946), an underrated title in Hitchcock’s library. Starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains, it is a masterwork in quiet tension.

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THE WIND (2018)

September 23, 2019

The Wind finds terror in the simplest, and harshest, place — the unforgiving, uninhabited prairie. A precise date isn’t given, but based on clues, it is set somewhere in the American west in the mid-to-late 1800s. The audience feels for the characters who try to stave off loneliness — and death — everyday.

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We all do it — get really excited for a new book, make sure it’s preordered or on the library waitlist, count down the days until we can get it in our hands, hug it all the way home, then add it to pile and promptly begin to feel guilty about not reading it immediately. It happens. Sometimes you need a book that fits your mood. Sometimes you are in the midst of another book at the time. For me, it’s often that I am revelling in the anticipation of reading the book and being immersed in it. The promise of the book is as exciting as anything. Of course this is tempered in equal measure by the shame of allowing the book to sit there unread…

Currently Reading

Meaghan's bookshelf: currently-reading

Metropolitan Stories
Metropolitan Stories
by Christine Coulson
The Pursuit of William Abbey
The Pursuit of William Abbey
by Claire North
Beheld
Beheld
by TaraShea Nesbit

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